Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] atmel_flexcom: Support backup mode

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Wed Sep 20 2017 - 05:18:41 EST


On 20/09/2017 at 10:30:31 +0200, Romain Izard wrote:
> 2017-09-19 17:25 GMT+02:00 Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> >
> >> On 15/09/2017 at 16:04, Romain Izard wrote:
> >> > The controller used by a flexcom module is configured at boot, and left
> >> > alone after this. As the configuration will be lost after backup mode,
> >> > restore the state of the flexcom driver on resume.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Romain Izard <romain.izard.pro@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Tested-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> On sama5d2 Xplained board (i2c0 from flexcom 4).
> >> and obviously:
> >> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Thanks Romain!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> > ---
> >> > drivers/mfd/atmel-flexcom.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> >> > 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
> > This is the first time I've seen this patch. Why's that?
> >
>
> As the patchset covers many subsystems, get_maintainers.pl provided a
> very long list of both developpers and mailing lists (28). I thought it
> was a good idea to shorten it a little. Bad idea. Sorry.
>

I think the correct way of handling that would have been to send each
patch to the proper subsystem as there are no dependency here.

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
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